The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 55 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
36 of these deaths occurred in February, 18 of these in occurred in January, and the date of 1 death remains under investigation.
The median age of those who died is 86 years and the age range is 49-100 years.
There has been a total of 3,674 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Friday 5th February, the HPSC has been notified of 827 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 202,548 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
- 409 are men / 416 are women
- 63% are under 45 years of age
- The median age is 38 years old
- 297 are in Dublin, 76 in Cork, 56 in Galway, 46 in Wexford, 37 in Kildare and the remaining 315 cases are spread across all other counties. **
As of 2pm today, 1,177 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 177 are in ICU. 29 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
